Books for Substance and Process Addiction

General Issues of Addiction

• Bien, Thomas and Beverly Bien. Mindful Recovery: A Spiritual Path to Healing from Addiction. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 2002.
   
• Carnes, Patrick. A Gentle Path through the Twelve Steps: The Classic Guide for All People in the Process of Recovery. Center City, MN: Hazelden, 1993.
   
• Erickson, Carlton K. The Science of Addiction: From Neurobiology to Treatment. New York: W.W. Norton, 2007.
   
• Milkman, Harvey, and Stanley Sunderwirth. Craving for Ecstasy: How Our Passions Become Addictions and What We Can Do About Them. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1987
   
• Hoffman, John and Susan Froemke, eds. Addiction: Why Can’t They Just Stop? New York: Rodale, Inc., 2007.
   
• Khantzian, Edward. Treating Addiction as a Human Process. Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson, Inc., 2007.
   
• Maisal, Eric, and Susan Raeburn. Creative Recovery: A Complete Addiction Treatment Program that Uses Your Natural Creativity. Boston: Trumpeter, 2008.]
   
• May, Gerald G. Addiction & Grace: Love and Spirituality in the Healing of Addictions. San Francisco: Harper Collins Publishers, 1988.
   
• Nakken, Craig. The Addictive Personality: Understanding the Addictive Process and Compulsive Behavior. Center City, MN: Hazelden, 1996.
   
• Richardson, Wendy. The Link Between A.D.D. and Addiction: Getting the Help You Deserve. Colorado Springs, CO: Pinon Press.
   
• Ruden, Ronald. The Craving Brain: A Bold New Approach to breaking from drug addiction, overeating, alcoholism, gambling. New York: Harper-Collins, 1997.
   
• Tessina, Tina. The Real 13th Step: Discovering Confidence, Self-reliance, and Independence Beyond the Twelve-step Programs. Franklin Lakes, NJ: New Page Books, 2001.

Alcohol and Drug Addiction

• AA Services. Living Sober. New York: Alcoholics Anonymous World Services Inc., 1998.
   
• AA Services. Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions. New York: AA Grapevine Inc., and Alcoholics Anonymous Publishing, 40th printing 2004.
   
• Alcoholics Anonymous Big Book. New York: Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc., 2007.
   
• Alexander, William. Still Waters: Sobriety, Atonement, and Unfolding Enlightenment. Center City, MN: Hazelden Foundation, 2006.
   
• Anonymous. Staying Clean: Living Without Drugs. Center City, MN: Hazelden Foundation, 1987.
   
• Ash, Mel. The Zen of Recovery. New York: Jeremy T. Parcher/Putnam, 1993.
   
• Cheever, Susan. My Name Is Bill: Bill Wilson—His Life and the Creation of Alcoholics Anonymous. New York: Washington Square Press, 2004.
   
• Christopher, James. How to Stay Sober: Recovery without Religion. New York: Prometheus Books, 1988.
   
• Cimino, Kenneth. The Politics of Crystal Meth: Gay Men Share Stories of Addiction and Recovery. Boca Raton, FL: Universal Publishers, 2005.
   
• Colvin, Rod. Prescription Drug Addiction: The Hidden Epidemic. Omaha, NE: Addicus Books, 2002.
   
• Diamond, Jonathan. Narrative Means to Sober Ends: Treating Addiction and Its Aftermath. New York: Guilford Press, 2000.
   
• DuWors, George. White Knuckles and Wishful Thinking: Learning from the Moment of Relapse in Alcoholism and Other Addictions. Cambridge, MA; Gottingen, Germany: Hogrefe and Huber, 1999.
   
• Farrell, Richard. What’s Left of Us: a memoir of addiction. New York: Kensington Publishing Corp, 2009.
   
• Fletcher, Anne M. Sober for Good: New Solutions for Drinking Problems: Advice from Those Who Have Succeeded. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2002.
   
• Gregson, David, and Jay Efran. The Tao of Sobriety: Helping You to Recover from Alcohol and Drug Addiction. New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2002
   
• Griffin, Kevin. One Breath at a Time: Buddhism and the Twelve Steps. New York: Rodale, 2004.
   
• Grof, Christina. The Thirst for Wholeness: Attachment, Addiction, and the Spiritual Path. New York: Harper Collins, 1993.
   
• Grof, Christina, and Stanislav Grof. The Stormy Search for the Self: A Guide to Personal Growth through Transformational Crisis. New York: Tarcher/Penguin Books, 1990.
   
• Kettelhack, Guy. First Year Sobriety: When All That Changes Is Everything. Center City, MN: Hazelden, 1992.
   
• Lee, Stephen. Overcoming Crystal Meth Addiction: An Essential Guide to Getting Clean. New York: Marlowe and Company, 2006.
   
• Levine, Noah. Against the Stream: A Buddhist Manual for Spiritual Revolutionaries. New York: Harper Collins, 2007.
   
• Meacham, Denis G. The Addiction Ministry Handbook: A Guide for Faith Communities. Boston: Skinner House Books, 2004.
   
• Narcotics Anonymous. It Works: How and Why: Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions of Narcotics Anonymous.
   
• National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University. Women Under the Influence. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 2006.
   
• O’Malley, Mary. The Gift of Our Compulsions: A Revolutionary Approach to Self-Acceptance and Healing. Novato, CA: New World Library, 2004.
   
• Platt, Jerome J. Cocaine Addiction: Theory, Research and Treatment. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997.
   
• Sheff, David. Beautiful Boy: A Father’s Journey through His Son’s Addiction. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2008.
   
• Sheff, Nic. Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines. New York: Ginee Seo Books, 2008.
   
• Solomon, Melanie. AA: Not the Only Way: Your One-Step Guide to 12-Step Alternatives. Venice, CA: Melanie Solomon, 2005.
   
• Stein, Michael. The Addict: One Patient, One Doctor, One Year. New York: William Morrow, 2009.
   
• Trimpey, Jack. Rational Recovery: The New Cure for Substance Addiction. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1996.
   
• Washton, David. Cocaine Addiction: Treatment, Recovery, and Relapse Prevention. New York: W.W. Norton, 1989.

Codependence

• Beattie, Melody. Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself. Center City, MN: Hazelden Foundation, 1992.
   
• Burney, Robert. Codependence: the Dance of Wounded Souls: A Cosmic Perspective of Codependence and the Human Condition. Cambria, CA: Joy to You and Me Enterprises, 1995.
   
• Casey, Karen. Codependence and the Power of Detachment. San Francisco: Conari Press, 2008.
   
• Mellody, Pia, Andrea Wells Miller, and J. Keith Miller. Facing Codependence: What It Is, Where It Comes From, How It Sabotages Our Lives. New York: Harper Collins, 1989.
   
• Small, Jacqueline. Awakening in Time: The Journey from Codependence to Co-Creation. Austin, TX: Eupsychian Press, 1991.

Eating Disorders: Overeating, Bulimia, Exercise Bulimia, and Anorexia Nervosa

• Cohn, Leigh and Thomas Holbrook. Making Weight: Men’s Conflicts with Food, Weight, Shape and Appearance. Carlsbad, CA: Gurze Books, 2000.
   
• Friedman, Peach. Diary of an Exercise Addict. Guilford, CT: GPP Life, 2009.
   
• Hall, Lindsey and Leigh Cohn. Bulimia: A Guide to Recovery. Carlsbad, CA: Gurze Books, 1999.
   
• Hall, Lindsey and Monica Ostroff. Anorexia Nervosa: A Guide to Recovery. Carlsbad, CA: Gurze Books, 1998.
   
• Hirschmann, Jane and Carol Munter. Overcoming Overeating: How to Break the Diet/Binge Cycle and Live a Healthier, More Satisfying Life. Philadelphia: Da Capo Press, 2008.
   
• Hornbacher, Marya. Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia. New York: Harper Collins, 1998.
   
• Roth, Geneen. Breaking Free from Compulsive Eating. New York: Penguin, 1993.
   
• Roth, Geneen. When Food Is Love: Exploring the Relationship Between Food and Intimacy. New York: Penguin Books, 1992.
   
• Sheppard, Kay. Food Addiction: The Body Knows. Deerfield Beach, FL: Health Communications, Inc., 1993.

Gambling Addiction

• Griffiths, Mark. Gambling and Gaming Addictions in Adolescence. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 2002.
   
• Lancelot, Marilyn. Gripped by Gambling. Tucson, AZ: Wheatmark, 2007.
   
• McCown, William G., and Linda Chamberlain. Best Possible Odds: Contemporary Treatment Strategies for Gambling Disorders. New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 2000.
   
• McCown, William G., and William H. Howatt. Treating Gambling Problems (Wiley addiction series). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 2007.
   
• Perkinson, Robert R. The Gambling Addiction Patient Workbook. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2003.

Sex and Relationship Addiction

• Augustine Fellowship, Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous, Fellowship-Wide Service, Inc. Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous. Boston, 1986.
   
• Canning, Maureen. Lust Anger Love: Understanding Sexual Addiction and the Road to Healthy Intimacy. Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks, Inc., 2008.
   
• Carnes, Patrick. Don’t Call It Love: Recovery from Sexual Addiction. New York: Bantam, 1991.
   
• Carnes, Patrick J. Out of the Shadows: Understanding Sexual Addiction. Center City, MN: Hazelden, 1983, 1992, 2001.
   
• Carnes, Patrick and David L. Delmonico, Elizabeth Griffin, and Joseph Moriarty. In the Shadows of the Net: Breaking Free of Compulsive Online Sexual Behavior. Center City, MN: Hazelden, 2001.
   
• Carnes, Patrick and Joseph Moriarty. Sexual Anorexia: Overcoming Sexual Self-Hatred. Center City, MN: Hazelden, 1997.
   
• Kasl, Charlotte Davis. Women, Sex, and Addiction: A Search for Love and Power. New York: Harper and Row, 1989.
   
• Mellody, Pia. Facing Love Addiction: Giving Yourself the Power to Change the Way You Love. San Francisco: Harper San Francisco, 1992.
   
• P.D.N.E.C. Hope and Recovery: A Twelve-Step Guide for Healing from Sexually Compulsive Behavior. Center City, MN: Hazelden, 1987.
   
• Schaef, Anne Wilson. Escape from Intimacy: Untangling the “Love” Addictions: Sex, Romance, Relationships. New York: Harper Collins, 1989.
   
• Weiss, Robert. Cruise Control: Understanding Sex Addiction in Gay Men. Los Angeles: Alyson Books, 2005.
   
• Williamson, P., and S. Kiser. Answers in the Heart: Daily Meditations for Men and Women Recovering from Sex Addiction. Hazelden, 1989.

Shopping Addiction/Compulsive Shopping

• Arenson, Gloria. Born to Spend: Overcoming Compulsive Spending.Santa Barbara, CA: Brockart Books, 2003.
   
• Shulman, Terrance Daryl. Bought and Spent! Recovery from Compulsive Shopping and Spending. West Conshohocken, PA: Infinity Publishing, 2008.
   
• Shulman, Terrance Daryl. Something for Nothing: Shoplifting Recovery and Addiction. West Conshohocken, PA: Infinity Publishing, 2004.